Example sentences of "[noun] he become the first " in BNC.

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1 In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England .
2 Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) .
3 ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional .
4 In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern .
5 In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford .
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